by Arto Paasilinna
bookshelves: finland, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, published-1975, translation, spring-2015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, midlife-crisis, amusing, politics, phrenology Read from February 09 to March 09, 2015 Description: A journalist and a photographer set out on an assignment on lovely s...
Last year sometime I read and reviewed The Howling Miller. I enjoyed it so much I wanted to read something else by Paasilinna, a Finnish author. His books are more light hearted with a dark humour about them. Something I tend to lack in the books I read.This is the only other book of his translated ...
Escaping humdrum life?
What a delightful little book! A journalist's life is changed when the car he is riding in hits but does not kill a hare. He wanders into the forest to check on it, the driver of the car becomes inpatient and leaves, and so begins the journalist's decision to escape the life he doesn't much enjoy a...
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